Facing torture through art and the afterlives of war: behind the mask
The nexus between art and torture has a long history, yet the discipline of International Relations has largely failed to engage with this potent affective/aesthetic site and the critical opening up of unseen possibilities around “knowing” torture that such engagements engender. In response, this ch...
| Main Author: | |
|---|---|
| Format: | Print Article |
| Language: | English |
| Published: |
2023
|
| In: |
Contesting torture
Year: 2023, Pages: 139-164 |
| Check availability: | HBZ Gateway |
| Summary: | The nexus between art and torture has a long history, yet the discipline of International Relations has largely failed to engage with this potent affective/aesthetic site and the critical opening up of unseen possibilities around “knowing” torture that such engagements engender. In response, this chapter considers US veteran artist, Eli Wright, a former combat medic in Iraq, and his artwork, Torture Mask Triptych, in attempts to open up these possibilities. In its exploration of torture via a narrative approach, this chapter embraces a scholarship of discomfort to unveil multiple contestations, in terms of the sites and subjects under examination and the modes of (un)knowing it pursues. To view torture as/from a site of discomfort reveals troubling slippages in understandings of/around (the) tortured, torturer, and torturing that in turn lead to more subversive and destabilising critical insights around torture and its contestation in the War on Terror. |
|---|---|
| Item Description: | Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 163-164 |
| Physical Description: | Illustrationen |
| ISBN: | 9781032308692 |